Æther Core Book

Prepare Yourself! Prepare for a game system that combines fast character generation,streamlined combat, and a skill system that enhances the roleplayingexperience. Prepare for a system where game mechanics make sense, characteradvancement is granted through creativity, not combat, and a system thatencouragesastonishing flexibility of action for your characters.

Only this Core Book, a pencil, a pair of 10-sided dice, and your imagination areneeded for playing this game in any genre, time,place, or level of technology.Rules for character generation, a comprehensive skill listing, and a basic equipmentlist for a modern day setting are all included within. Also included is a settinggenerator that allows you to quickly create a setting in any time period, levelof technology or magic, any genre, and any tone you can imagine.

Finally, Wellstone City, the frame work for modern and historical settings in Americais included. This solid foundation of a city gives enough detail to let you run acomplete adventure, but leaves the setting open enough for you to create youown world in Wellstone City. An adventure, Public Transit Assassins is also included,and it introduces the players and the characters to the ins and outs ofWellstone, as well as preparing the characters for the fact that being poor isn’t allit’s cracked up to be. This adventure can be a stand-alone, a spring board, or adiversion in an existing campaign.

Just received my softcover, very nice! However, I notice that it's different from the PDF - different cover, some different art and organization inside, more pages (and different pagination, of course). I suspect the PDF was simply never updated. (Ah, I'm seeing now: the softcover is the "second printing"; the PDF is not.) Any chance of getting that PDF updated? Thanks in advance!

Silver Gryphon games recently updated their core rulebook of their flagship game Æther. Not only have I had the chance to read it and play it and a few of the supplements that they have in store for us (Zompocylpse and Æthermancy), but I’ve also en [...]

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